An "alien asteroid" that circles the sun in the giant gas planet Jupiter's orbital path, but hurtling in the opposite direction, is the first-known permanent resident of our solar system that astronomers have concluded originated in another star system.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-2...system/9786686
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Mon, 21 May 2018 21:53:09 GMTSource: Wired https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-worlds-extraordinary-orbit-points-to-planet-nine/
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Astronomers are reporting that they have spotted another distant world—perhaps as large as a dwarf planet—whose orbit is so odd that it is...Source: Wired https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-wo...o-planet-nine/

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Astronomers are reporting that they have spotted another distant world—perhaps as large as a dwarf planet—whose orbit is so odd that it is likely to have been shepherded by Planet Nine. The object confirms a specific prediction made by Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown, the astronomers at the California Institute of Technology who first argued for Planet Nine’s existence. “It’s not proof that Planet Nine exists,” said David Gerdes, an astronomer at the University of Michigan and a co-author on the new paper. “But I would say the presence of an object like this in our solar system bolsters the case for Planet Nine.”
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Mon, 21 May 2018 02:34:23 GMT

The more counties getting into space the better as far as I'm concerned because that, and commercial spaceflight, will create more competition to motivate us to get out there. We need to go back to the moon and establish a permanent colony.
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Could this have triggered the big bang?
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-15/monster-black-hole-discovered,-and-its-growing-very-fast/9761540

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science...-to-red-planet
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Fri, 11 May 2018 22:21:49 GMTAnother successful step forward for SpaceX, and a milestone for Bangladesh earlier today with the deployment of their first geostationary communications satellite .
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SpaceX successfully launched the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 on Friday, May...Another successful step forward for SpaceX, and a milestone for Bangladesh earlier today with the deployment of their first geostationary communications satellite .

The Bangabandhu Satellite-1 mission served as the first flight of Falcon 9 Block 5, the final substantial upgrade to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Falcon 9 Block 5 is designed to be capable of 10 or more flights with very limited refurbishment as SpaceX continues to strive for rapid reusability and extremely high reliability. Following stage separation, SpaceX successfully landed Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.